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People of Psychology

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who conducted the first laboratory experience in psychology concerning psychophysics and the atoms of the mind?

a)

G. Stanley Hall

b)

Socrates

c)

Wilhelm Wundt

d)

William James

2.

Who is associated with studying both learned helplessness and started the field of positive psychology?

a)

Martin Seligman

b)

Elizabeth Loftus

c)

Philip Zimbardo

d)

Mary Calkins

3.

Which psychologist is MOST associated with the creation of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) in cognitive psychology?

a)

Carl Rogers

b)

Albert Ellis

c)

Aaron Beck

d)

Sigmund Freud

4.

Which person in psychology is considered the father of classical conditioning because of his work with dogs?

a)

B.F. Skinner

b)

E.L. Thorndike

c)

Ivan Pavlov

d)

E.C. Toleman

5.

Who conducted the famous memory experiment involving misinformation effect and wording effects about a car crash?

a)

Mary Ainsworth

b)

Elizabeth Loftus

c)

Sigmund Freud

d)

Paul Ekman

6.

Who observed that people from all cultures exhibit the same facial expressions, but also abide by the display rules of when to show certain expressions of emotion?

a)

E.C. Toleman

b)

Paul Ekman

c)

Aaron Beck

d)

David Buss

7.

Who conducted a study a involving the Heinz moral dilemma (steal the drug), and classified morals into pre, post and conventional stages?

a)

Mary Ainsworth

b)

Erik Erikson

c)

Lawrence Kohlberg

d)

Carl Jung

8.

Who created to cat puzzle box to prove the law of effect (if the behavior results in a positive outcome, the behavior will be repeated)?

a)

Harry Harlow

b)

E.C. Tolman

c)

E.L. Thorndike

d)

Albert Bandura

9.

Who conducted a 'shocking' study regarding obedience and compliance that is now deemed unethical in the field of psychology?

a)

Jean Piaget

b)

Solomon Asch

c)

Alfred Binet

d)

Stanley Milgram

10.

Who would be most associated with the forgetting curve and his study of the serial position effect? (Hint: He is the father of memory research).

a)

Konrad Lorenz

b)

Hermann Ebbinghaus

c)

Martin Seligman

d)

B.F. Skinner

11.

Which social psychologist studied how people will change their behavior when they experience an inner tension caused by cognitive dissonance?

a)

Muzafer Sherif

b)

Albert Bandura

c)

Jane Goodall

d)

Leon Festinger

12.

Which psychologist would be most concerned about a person's inferiority complex?

a)

Alfred Adler

b)

Carl Jung

c)

Alfred Binet

d)

E.C. Tolman

13.

Who conducted the Bobo Doll study and also coined the terms reciprocal determinism and self-efficacy?

a)

Martin Seligman

b)

Albert Bandura

c)

B.F. Skinner

d)

Aaron Beck

14.

Which psychologist created the Stanford-Binet intelligence test and also tracked gifted children through adulthood while promoting the eugenics movement?

a)

Alfred Binet

b)

Charles Spearman

c)

Lewis Terman

d)

William Stern

15.

Who wrote the first textbook in psychology and also was the creator of the functionalism movement?

a)

Wilhelm Wundt

b)

Plato

c)

Edward Titchener

d)

William James

16.

Who would agree that intelligence can be boiled down to a single factor and named this factor "g"?

a)

Howard Gardner

b)

Charles Spearman

c)

John Mayer

d)

Robert Sternberg

17.

Which psychologist devoted his time to studying cognitive maps and how rats can learn a maze by "sight-seeing" the maze?

a)

E.C. Tolman

b)

Albert Bandura

c)

B.F. Skinner

d)

Paul Broca

18.

Which woman of psychology became the first president of the APA even though she was denied her Ph.D. from Harvard while studying with William James?

a)

Mary Calkins

b)

Elizabeth Loftus

c)

Karen Horney

d)

Margaret Washburn

19.

Who would agree that "understanding of language" seems to be focused in the left temporal lobe?

a)

Carl Wernicke

b)

Paul Broca

c)

David Buss

d)

Charles Spearman

20.

Which psychologist showed how people can get caught up in their roles and lose a sense of self during the Stanford Prison Study?

a)

Amos Tversky

b)

Albert Bandura

c)

Solomon Asch

d)

Philip Zimbardo

21.

Who proposed that their are eight, life-long, unconscious stages of conflict that will shape social development? (Hint: Trust vs. Mistrust)

a)

Carl Rogers

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Harry Harlow

d)

Erik Erikson

22.

Who disagreed with Kohlberg's theory that women cannot achieve the highest levels of moral development?

a)

Albert Bandura

b)

Carol Gilligan

c)

Mary Ainsworth

d)

Margaret Washburn

23.

Who conducted the Robber's Cave study that pitted groups of boys against each other, only to bring them back together using superordinate goals?

a)

Muzafer Sherif

b)

Stanley Milgram

c)

Hans Eysenck

d)

Howard Gardner

24.

Who developed the cognitive development theory that includes sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete and formal stages?

a)

Erik Erikson

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Jean Piaget

d)

Robert Sternberg

25.

Who opened the first psychology lab in America at Johns Hopkins University?

a)

Wilhelm Wundt

b)

G. Stanley Hall

c)

Harry Harlow

d)

William James

26.

Who would be associated with developing the humanistic therapy techniques of unconditional positive regard and active listening?

a)

Mary Ainsworth

b)

Joseph Wolpe

c)

Aaron Beck

d)

Carl Rogers

27.

Which psychologist used his knowledge of savant syndrome to develop the theory of multiple intelligences?

a)

Howard Gardner

b)

Charles Spearman

c)

Lewis Terman

d)

John Mayer

28.

Which psychologist said that "comfort contact" and "tactile touch" are the most important qualities to form attachment?

a)

David Buss

b)

Mary Ainsworth

c)

Harry Harlow

d)

Lev Vygotsky

29.

Who would consider the unconscious conflicts of the id and superego to be a driving force in a person's personality?

a)

Abraham Maslow

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Aaron Beck

d)

Hans Eysenck

30.

She would agree that responsive parenting helps to form secure attachment in children.

a)

Elizabeth Loftus

b)

Mary Calkins

c)

Mary Ainsworth

d)

Lara Boyd

31.

This psychologist researched the different parenting styles which included authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive.

a)

Konrad Lorenz

b)

Diana Baumrind

c)

Mary Ainsworth

d)

Erik Erikson

32.

He wrote the paper, "On Being Sane in Insane Places" based on his time developing theories about the negative impacts of diagnostic labels.

a)

Leon Festinger

b)

Philip Zimbardo

c)

David Rosenhan

d)

John Locke

33.

His work with taste aversion was so important that they named an effect after him.

a)

John Bowlby

b)

Paul Ekman

c)

James Garcia

d)

Raymond Cattell

34.

His work as a student of Freud's is highly regarded for his spiritual aspects of the collective unconscious and archetypes.

a)

Erik Erikson

b)

Carl Jung

c)

Alfred Kinsey

d)

Ernest Hilgard

35.

He was one of the main researchers of cognitive decision-making, which includes framing, availability heuristics, and representativeness heuristics.

a)

Noam Chomsky

b)

Daniel Kahneman

c)

Gordon Allport

d)

Alfred Binet

36.

Who worked on developing comprehensive research on human sexual behavior, even though his sample was considered biased?

a)

Alfred Kinsey

b)

Hermann Ebbinghaus

c)

Daniel Goleman

d)

Alfred Adler

37.

Which psychologist was famous for studying human needs and developed the hierarchy of needs pyramid?

a)

E.C. Tolman

b)

Robert Sternberg

c)

Abraham Maslow

d)

Carl Jung

38.

In terms of intelligence, which psychologist proposed that there are three types of intelligence, namely, analytic, creative, and practical intelligences?

a)

Lewis Terman

b)

William Stern

c)

Charles Spearman

d)

Robert Sternberg

39.

Who would have agreed that a cognitive label is needed to experience a specific emotion?

a)

Hans Eysenck

b)

Stanley Schachter

c)

William James

d)

Walter Cannon

40.

Who developed the theory of general adaptation syndrome (GAS) which states how our body reacts to stress in three distinct stages?

a)

Jean Piaget

b)

Julian Rotter

c)

Hans Selye

d)

Lev Vygotsky